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...contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building a buggy with a tractor unit shaped like a horse in order not to frighten real horses in traffic...
...military attachés and the Regent suddenly spied in the hurrying military parade four specimens of a completely new heavy mobile gun. Each gun appeared to have a crew of about 40 and sped past in five sections, each rolling on rubber tires and pulled by a heavy tractor. First section, the gun carriage; second, the gun cradle; third, the immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power exclaimed...
...meaty report Commissar Zverev made in the official publication Bolshevik. In this, Commissar Zverev blames on his purged predecessor, Grigory Grinko, four major shortcomings in Soviet finance: 1) persistently low purchasing power of the ruble; 2) long arrears in salaries which the State owes to personnel of the Motor & Tractor Stations (some have been unpaid for as much as two years); 3) closing by the State of a total of 26,000 Soviet savings banks and institutions; 4) chaotic conditions in the Soviet tax system...
Syphilis is another concern of industrial medicine. Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s Harold Albert Vonachen reported that the syphilitics of their Peoria, Ill. plant are kept at work as long as they follow treatment by their family doctors. He discovered that 400 of the 10,000 employes had syphilis. Only two refused treatment. They lost their jobs...
...Mazamas, themselves weak, were assigned to support each of them. Then Leader Leuthold broke a climbing rule-that an expedition's leader, like a sea captain, must follow all others out of trouble. He donned skis, tumbled, slid, rolled down to Timberline to fetch the snow tractor. At the lodge he found that the driver was miles away, the key lost...